#do Scott and Shane have a tag?

[antwuzhere]

SSAW DAY 3 -

TEAM UP 🐼

Guys…. Do you remember. Remember mcc 30. Mcc 30 purple pandas.

Aka Scott and his 3 needy boyfriends

Bless. I miss them

Prompts by @ju5tanarti5t <3

[maraxp]

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[84reedsy]

Fall Brawl 1999

So, I haven't done a live blog of a WCW ppv in a hot minute. So why not now, when I desperately need to go to sleep, yet feel somehow compelled to subject myself to the follow up of what is widely called the worst ppv of all time, Fall Brawl 1998?

Because I have been stuck wading through 1999 WCW for at LEAST 7 months and if I don't grit my teeth and just DO IT, it may beat me.

Not a great start off the bat....the graphics are giving "We've laid off all non-essential personnel and hope no one notices until WWF/WWE buys us out in two years"

Let's check the match card!

Six Man Tag Team Match

The Deadpool (Shaggy 2 Dope, Vampiro & Violent J) vs. The Filthy Animals (Eddie Guerrero, Kidman & Rey Mysterio Jr.)

WCW World Cruiserweight Title Match

Lenny (c) (w/Lodi) vs. Kaz Hayashi

No Disqualification Tag Team Match

The First Family (Brian Knobbs & Hugh Morrus) (w/Jimmy Hart) vs. The Revolution (Dean Malenko & Shane Douglas)

WCW World Television Title Match

Rick Steiner (c) vs. Perry Saturn

Singles Match

Berlyn (w/The Wall) vs. Jim Duggan

WCW World Tag Team Title Match

The West Texas Rednecks (Barry Windham & Kendall Windham) (w/Curt Hennig) (c) vs. Harlem Heat (Booker T & Stevie Ray)

WCW United States Heavyweight Title Match

Chris Benoit (c) vs. Sid Vicious

Singles Match

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Goldberg

WCW World Heavyweight Title Match

Hulk Hogan (c) vs. Sting

....My hopes are not high here. All respect to Jim Duggan, but he hasn't been on Nitro/Thunder for at least a year (post cancer treatment) and now he's in a PPV? Against Berlyn who....is packaged like an anti-american villain from 80s wrestling...and its just Alex Wright with a new haircut and a beard. Its as dumb as it sounds.

The only thing I'm looking forward to is Curt Hennig at ringside (because you guessed it folks, still on my bullshit with him. Literally cannot stop drooling.)

Also I'm so so so so done with Sting v Hogan....can it PLEASE be over?!?!

At least some cruiserweights are up first!

(Also WHERE TF IS SCOTT)

[david-tennant-wearing-things]

Okay I have thoughts on this one and I actually feel like putting them into sentences, so, without further ado: me actually writing a post without procrastinating indefinitely

My first impression, genuinely, was underwhelmed. I definitely really like it, but it didn't blow my mind like the others. (Maybe all of my anticipatory excitement before seeing it was setting the bar unrealistically high?) Initially, I assumed the designer was Mithridate—partially because I spent the past few weeks really hoping it would be—but mostly because they've designed the previous three embellished jackets and it seemed like a reasonably logical conclusion?

Some things I noticed:

1. Flowers! Mithridate's three previous looks have all been very celestial. The switch to flowers is plausible (or at least still on-theme for the Crowley vibes) but it feels a bit unlikely for them to change gears so suddenly. 2. Shawl collar, which means literally nothing aside from "a tiny bit less Crowley," but it definitely makes it distinct from the others. 2a. Sunglasses, which mean literally nothing aside from "a tiny bit more Crowley" and I think this has more to do with his stylist than anything else. 3. Where are the bugs?? Mithridate has been doing a lot with bugs (to the point that I briefly thought they might've been involved with Andrew Scott's Met Gala look. Alright, fine, Versace. You can have some bugs, too.) 4. Bead placement is a lot more focused to specific areas (lower sleeves, shoulders, lapels, and collar) opposed to Mithridate's usual all-over embellishments. 5. I zoomed in and I could actually identify the types of beads used! (mostly bugle beads) And really, credit for this should go to Shane Anthony Sinclair of Getty Images, not the designer, but on both the BAFTA Kilt and the Olivier suit, I really struggled to be able to identify specific bead shapes. This issue was also present on the suit from the Evening Standard Awards, but to a lesser extent. (if anyone has some super sharp images of any of those, I'd be forever in your debt 🥹) 6. Enter Georgia

Suddenly it all makes sense: Joshua Kane. It doesn't look like Mithridate's work because it's not. Joshua Kane shared this to his instagram story and it's really interesting to see v1! Also the images in the linked post are super sharp, so I'm definitely not complaining

Also want to note that Georgia tagged goodomensprime which also doesn't mean anything, but I still wanted to mention it 🤷

final thoughts: I like it a lot more now that I'm not trying to figure out why Mithridate suddenly changed everything. I also really appreciate the closeups of the beading on Joshua Kane's instagram (despite being a different piece) because I love the detail and I wish he'd post similar shots of David's!

[fearlessmuses]

WANTED SHIPS:

Butcher x Homelander ( dark / potentially toxic i mean )

Diana Prince x Steve Trevor

Ten x Clara Oswald

Billy Russo x Frank Castle ( dark / potentially toxic )

Fandral x Loki ( i am sure there are aus and just so much )

Logan x Scott Summers ( post x2 film wise or comic wise i mean )

Logan x Scott x Jean ( i mean poly for sure )

Billy Dunne x Daisy Jones ( triggering content / unhealthy potential)

Hades x Minthe ( unhealthy for sure )

Hades x Hera ( unhealthy potential affair based au / revenge cheating )

Pike x Kirk

Rick Grimes x Shane Walsh ( goes without saying doesn't it? affair potenial / general intense triggering potentials )

There's a lot I will do, I don't have triggers and always happy to tag triggers for those who needs. I'm all about exploring things beyond that soft romances that are cute and fluffy. I love some messy fighting less than happy ending stuff too! That's why we watch tv, read books & comics right!

[thebbboris]

BBB’s Notebook: ROH Final Battle 2024

I stopped watching ROH a few months back but I’m always down for one of their signature events. I still have a lot of equity in ROH and I cling to hopes they can return to their former glory. Until then we will have to settle for this…

Skipping Zero Hour. No disrespect intended.

Usual bullet-point review style.

-Pretty solid opening video.

-Ian and Caprice on the call. I quite enjoy them and get a vibe that they enjoy working with each other.

-MATCH: Atlantis Jr. vs. Mansoor.

-Crowd seems a little subdued. Maybe not the best choice for opener.

-Atlantis wins with a frog splash. Last few minutes were quite fun, the return of Danhausen got a pretty big reaction.

-Post-match Mason attacks Atlantis but is cursed by Danhausen. Bring on the jar of teeth….

-Backstage interview with Chris Jericho. Steals Michael Scott Sbarro pizza joke. New York centric heel promo, crowd reacted but I couldn’t give a shit.

-MATCH: Katsuyori Shibata vs. Tommy Billington.

-ROH debut for Billington, big stage.

-Shibata wins with a sleeper. A decent grappling contest, Shibata gives Billington the run after match. Interesting to see how much Billington gets used.

-JayLethal/QT Marshall hype video.

-MATCH: QT Marshall vs. Jay Lethal.

-Marshall and his crew dressed in full Macho Man NWO gear.

-Lethal goes full Black Machismo. No idea why Karen Jarrett is with him….

-Jeff Jarrett comes to Karen’s aid after Aaron Solo puts his hands on her.

-Marshall kicked out of the flying elbow shocking everyone.

-Lethal wins with the Lethal Injection. This was a really fun match with some entertaining extracurriculars from ringside and good false finishes. Lethal still looks good, like to see him have one more prominent run.

-Hype video for Leyla Hirsch and Red Velvet.

-MATCH: ROH Women's Television Championship - Leyla Hirsch vs. Red Velvet (c).

-Velvet rapped to the ring by…. Someone.

-Red Velvet wins after hitting Hirsch with a wrench. Odd finish to a serviceable match

-Hype video for Lee Moriarty’s Pure title open challenge. Big fan of Lee.

-Jerry Lynn, Rocky Romero and Christopher Daniels are your judges.

-MATCH: ROH Pure Wrestling Championship - Lee Moriarty (c) vs. Nigel McGuinnes.

-Big pop for McGuinnes. This should be fun.

-Nigel takes the mic and says he wants to do it old school ROH style. Shane Taylor rips on McGuinnes’s age. After a pretty good back and forth on the mic, Taylor says you got it. Old school rules mean no judges. Basically all the other rules are the same.

-Nigel basically tricks him into using a rope break accidentally. Awesome.

-Moriarty is charged a second rope break for a phantom closed fist. Taylor asks for a second referee to prevent more shenanigans.

-McGuinnes uses a rope break to escape a Border City Stretch.

-Nigel uses second rope break for the same reason.

-McGuinnes exhausts his third rope break from another BCS.

-Nigel gets a 3 count but the second ref sees Moriartys foot on the rope. All rope breaks gone.

-Moriarty wins after a Border City Stretch. Very good bout, fans really got into it especially towards the end.

-Nigel shows Moriarty respect after the match.

-Hype video for the tag title match.

-MATCH: ROH Tag Team title Double Bull Rope match - The Righteous vs. The Sons of Texas (c).

-At one point Dutch takes a spill through a barbed wire table.

-Vincent gets a pair of scissors from under the ring and cuts his bull rope strap off. Not sure why he didn’t just undo the buckle….

-Sammy finds a table and ladder under the ring.

Sons of Texas retain after Dustin KO’s Dutch with the special family cowbell. This was a decent brawl, I would have cut 3 or 4 minutes but no biggy. I also think just a little bit of blood may have helped add just a bit more to this.

-MATCH: ROH Television title Survival of the Fittest match - Kommander vs. Willie Mack vs. Mark Davis vs. Brian Cage (c) vs. AR Fox vs. Blake Christian.

-This is gonna be a cluster. Hopefully in the best way possible.

-After a lot of action where everyone got a chance to shine, Brian Cage eliminates Willie Mack.

-Cage eliminates Fox with a super bomb. Fox got a lot of shine in the few minutes leading up to his elimination.

-Mark Davis pins Cage after a gnarly looking pile driver. New champ coming.

-Right away. Christian low-blows and pins Davis. Down to Blake and Kommander. Fans are hot.

-Kommander pins Christian with a shooting star after several minute of really good false finishes. Really really fun match, my favorite of the show so far.

-Hype video for the ROH title match.

-MATCH: ROH World Title - Chris Jericho (c) vs. Matt Cardona.

-Cardona entering from the street was a cool touch.

-I quite enjoyed the show girls and TK shelling out for Frank Sinatra for Jericho’s entrance. Going for a big fight feel.

-Jericho wins after a belt shot from Bryan Keith. The finish fell a little flat but the match was fine.

-Post match they beat down Cardona until Bandido makes the save a knocks himself loopy on a drop kick from the top. Post match segment was really awkward due to Bandido’s injury which was unfortunate. You could tell he wasn’t ok.

-Hype video for the main event.

-This feud has been going on since before I stopped watching ROH weekly.

-MATCH: ROH Women's Championship - Athena (c) vs. Billie Starkz.

-Athena tried for a cool look for her entrance but it just looked odd.

-Athena gets the win, crowd was really hot for this one and they wanted Billie to get the title. Good match overall but a bit sloppy for the first third or so.

[sarcasticfina]

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Three Ships:

Buck/Eddie (911)

Bonnie/Damon (TVD)

Scott/Malia (TW)

First Ship

i'm sure there was a ton as a kid that i didn't have a label for. the first ship i remember being into was eli/grace in once & again. Would've been right around the time shane west was getting noticed.

Last Song:

revived by derivakat

Last Movie

prey for the devil. twice a month, a friend and me get together, order in dinner and watch a horror movie.

Currently Reading

tonight, i plan to read a scott/malia fanfic, "coming home" by StarBurnedOut (@jealous-rage)

Currently Watching

Poker Face - I've watched 4 episodes so far and I'm really enjoying it. It focuses more on the victims and who they were before they're killed. and charlie cale (natasha lyonne) is just the type of character I love- snarky and seems distant but gets attached easily.

(I'm super behind on 911. I need to fix that.)

Currently Consuming:

popcorn and cream soda. incredibly healthy of me. something we can all aspire to.

Currently Craving:

sleep. which is dumb, because I actually slept in today. but I've had a busy week and some days it just be like that.

Tagging some folks from my notes (but no pressure of course):

i'm tagging the first 10 people i see on my dash, but do not feel obligated to fill it out!!

@absentlyabbie, @napoleanbonafarte, @henswilsons, @dyhlanobrien, @thehungwizard, @aflawedfashion. @yourfavdiabetic, @extasiswings, @madmaudlingoes, @azraeldoesnotdispute

[nerdyenby]

Orange time :D I’m watching Callum

Pregame

HBomb94 now wanted for murder, good for him ig

“That’s it, I’m taking matters into my own hands” terrifying, thanks Pete

Why is Callum talking about the availability of drugs in the United Kingdom???

I don’t even know how many people are in this call but all of them are bullying Callum lmao

“Habomba!!!” “It wasn’t me” “It says it was you!” “It’s a lie” “oh, sorry” them <333

Tubbo showing up and causing chaos is just as funny the second time

Tubbo realizing it’s May is even funnier the second time, I’m losing it

“Tubbo’s gone now” he’s freaking dead

Scott is such a guy, he has the intimidation factor while still being irrevocably likable

“That was the most eventful pre-MCC I’ve ever had” fr, I loved it so much

Tubbo gave Callum his stream key 😭😭😭

“Gotta be honest, I need your friendship more than I need $5k” and everyone going ‘um actually…’ 😂

Sausage asking to be sand daddy just because he wants to be called “daddy” 😂😂😂

WHAT is Shane and Callum’s dynamic here /pos

Rocket Spleef

Sausage’s explanation of his understanding isn’t wrong but it just sounds so off lol

Them just slandering all the other Minecraft events is so real, I’m sure they’re great but they’ll never be MCC <333

Everything Kara says gives Callum a flashback lol

Callum popped off!!

The MCC meta of alcohol 😂😂😂

The way the “reafy” predicting who won the game was actualy accurate

The way I didn’t think of Sausage and Callum as being in the same sphere but they have nearly the same friend group

We love them appreciating the lore :))

TGTTOSAWAF

Callum throwing his chicken in the middle being the deciding vote lmao

“I got 7th, thanks Shane” so true

Callum did so good for having never seen the map before

Yo Sausage!!!!

Tgttosawaf worst game real, it’s still good but comparatively it’s the least enjoyable

Sausage improving every round my beloved <333

Kara plotting revenge, as she should

Shane top three every time??? He’s inshane!!

When you put on the suit (purpled skin) you take on a burden greater than yourself (getting targeted)

Kara and Sausage noooooo

Your vote matters, Shane, cmon

Parkour Warrior

Graphic appreciation is so based <333

Shane’s keyboard 😭😭😭

The Hannah Montana movie reference lol

Whatever the heck Shane and Callum’s dynamic is, it’s everything

I know I’ve heard Sausage’s normal voice before but it caught me so off guard there lmao

It’s disgusting how easy this is for Callum

Finally, someone talking about the bees

HES DISGUSTING!!! /pos

HES TOO GOOD AT THE GAME!!!!

Kara 😂

The points are a lil silly, we move

Grid runners is not skippable, how dare you

Parkour Tag

Callum chickening out 😂😂😂

Sausage is giving such good comms!!

Nevermind lol

It sure is… going!!

Gosh darn it, when you see a “biggest comeback” breakdown blame Shane and Callum

I will NOT stand for this gr slander

Grid Runners

It’s not pronounced “boy,” there’s a u there for a reason lol

They’re killing it!!!

Kara accidentally cheating is killing me 😂

Those prison comms!!!!

First in Uppies!!!

“We’re so smart and big brain and maybe handsome” “We’re so handsome” so true sausage :))

One of my favorite things coming out of this MCC is everyone counting on the builders to know how to use scaffolding and them just saying “no, it SUCKS”

Consistency pog

Ok yeah, I just do not understand grid scoring

Callum’s predictions only take Ls

Kara and Shane having banger opinions

Meltdown

Shane leaking the script, rip

They played that so well!!

Callum jumping right into the lava lol

Head pat exchange at Vidcon Paris fr

Blue just appearing behind them was terrifying

Kara popping off!!!

Shane’s Kermit impression my beloved

Stay with the team Callum 😭😭😭

Purpled popping off

Survival Games

They just be makin’ sounds, so based of them tbh

“Your choice, you know I’ll follow you to the ends of the earth” Callum and Shane sure are dudes, pals even

HOW did Callum make it out of that alive lmao

“We were tenth and we’re not tenth anymore” “There’s still time, king!!” so true

Sands of Time

Shane stopping everything to say hi HBomb, so based

Callum they/them truthing Kara??

Callum “All Things MCC” PK didn’t know there’s a grace period with the sand timer? L /lh

How is he so bad at sot

I love Callum, I swear, he’s just so easy to make fun of

Sausage has such good comms for a first time sand keeper :))

They have so much sand what the heck

It is physically painful how many times Callum has looked directly at that one piece of sand

I love all the field trips this MCC, so many groups traveling together :D

The carpet trails in this blu path are insane, I’d love to study it under a microscope /pos

“Scott about to have to pay all the shipping to Spain” that’s such a good point actually, though I think shipping to America is probably more lol

Sausage did amazing!!! We love his team hyping him up :)))

Dodgebolt

I love seeing everyone rooting for red :D

That is just… not true, Kara 😂😂😂

So true Callum, the void hole in the merch store was peak mcm energy

Sausage for mcc spanish team 2k23

TIL Sausage was Cuban, though tbf I’ve never watched him before and I thought he was from Spain for some reason

This team was so fun :)))

Capitan is a menace /pos

Sausage’s Oli impression 😂

The game ended and they all collectively lost their minds, as they should

CALLUM SMACKTALKING GRID RUNNERS?!??

Shane and Callum sending Tubbo their stream keys and asking Scott if he’d do the same and his response being “God no”

[adamwatchesmovies]

The Predator (2018)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

I gave The Predator a pass the first time. Now, it’s time to accept the sad truth. This film is dreadful. It makes AVP: Requiem look refined and well thought-out. At least the moronically gory crossover didn’t muck up the characters by overcomplicating things. It didn't give us answers to questions we never asked about. If it wasn't clear already, this is easily the worst entry in the "Predator" series.

After encountering an alien armed with advanced stealth technology and high-powered weapons, Quinn McKenna (Boyd Holbrook) goes on the run - knowing the disastrous operation will be covered up, blamed on him, or both. While Dr. Casey Bracket (Olivia Munn) studies the captured extraterrestrial (the titular “Predator”) a second member of the same species arrives on Earth.

The original Predator - the character - was a simple villain. Equipped with cool weapons, big, tough and having a great time hunting down the biggest, toughest men it could find so it could skin them and take choice bits for its trophy room, it was a classic movie villain. We instantly understood everything there was to know about the space born big game hunter. Not content with giving us more of what we like, “The Predator” decides to expand on this in ways you can’t believe anyone would approve.

We learn Predators are actually creatures on a mission: continuously advance themselves by collecting the DNA of the most dangerous species in the galaxy and incorporating their traits into their physiology. Not a bad idea, but does it fit this franchise? “The Predator” clearly shows either through details in the background or dialogue that it is in continuity with the other instalments in the series (well, almost all; I’ll get to that in a bit) so why don’t the Predators have acid blood, razor tails and the xenomorph’s second mouths? Did they look at Ridley Scott’s monsters and say "nah, that would make us TOO good"? and why haven’t they changed physically since 1987? Before you mention those new-looking predators in Nimród Antal’s Predators understand that this film probably isn't in-continuity with it, as the monsters in this movie do have big hunting "hounds" but they look NOTHING like the ones we saw in 2010.

The Predator wants to explore multiple conflicting ideas simultaneously, and fails miserably. It pokes fun at elements of the original by reinventing or giving new meaning to old catchphrases. It points out that “The Predator” isn’t really a description of what the titular aliens do on our planet. It sticks in a bunch of Easter eggs reminding you of your favourite moments from years gone by. Rather than conjured up warm memories, this reminds us of other movies we'd rather be watching. Jake Busey plays Sean Keyes, the son of Peter Keyes (play by Busey’s father in Predator 2) but he serves no purpose in this movie, whatsoever.

The Predator wants to both celebrate those who suffer from Autism, Tourette’s syndrome, and other tic disorders, It also uses them as punchlines. Quinn becomes the leader of a rag-tag group of military misfits, each of which is essentially Shane Black’s character from Predator. In small doses, he provided some of the biggest laughs of the 1987 film. Multiplied by six? You can’t wait for them to be turned to hamburger meat.

Each of these flaws shows us the people at the wheel had a plan. A plan someone should've shut down before production even began. The definitive proof lies in the picture’s conclusion. It throws all of its characters together in a big mashup so fast and confusing you probably missed a key character’s death. It has the kind of twists that will make you groan and the ending is dumb but at least it’s over… until a second, last-minute reveal. Someone thought the audience would be extatic and that we'd all be rushing to the action figure aisle to buy some toys. Thank goodness a follow-up is never going to happen.

1987's Predator was a straightforward film with some cool twists along the way. The Predator should’ve been a fairly easy follow-up but director Shane Black and his co-writer Fred Dekker messed it up - big time. (April 13, 2019)

[sarah-dipitous]

Hellsite Nostalgia Tour 2023 Day 15

“Nightmare”

Would I Survive the First Five Minutes??: I think it’s safe to say I just wouldn’t survive a malevolent ghost trying to kill me. I don’t know if this is a ghost but I also wouldn’t survive carbon monoxide poisoning like that

Sam’s prophetic nightmares are getting worse, so that’s fun. But Sammy this isn’t your fault. You did everything you could

Ok. Tumblr has been trying to get me to interact with a post for days, maybe even more than a week supposedly “based on your likes!” And it’s gotta be because I still follow the Andrew Scott tag. No, I won’t stop loving him til I’m given a good reason to. But it’s someone claiming they don’t have a priest kink and then a bunch of dudes from superwholock in the getup and then “maybe I do.” This is one of those episodes. Sam and Dean are going undercover as priests, and gotta say…doesn’t do it for me. So, tumblr, if you could STOP SHOWING ME THAT POST!!!!

This woman is sobbing and all I can think is “is that aunt zelda from Sabrina?” The one *I* grew up with. (She is)

Oh man. I think Shane and Ryan would LOVE a ghost detector with LASERS.

YOOOOOOOO, dude’s brother just got decapitated, and I’m just AT the laundromat??

Dean saying their family isn’t cursed is…just…stellar.

Something tells me this kid is lyyyyyyying. So what’s gonna happen to Zelda??

Ooooof Max. OOOOF DEAN. NO. I’m usually with you in your arguments but nah, Sam’s right. You can’t kill this kid.

You can’t bring a gun to a knife fight if the guy you’re fighting is TELEKINETIC, DEAN!!!

Ooooooh, I forgot that there was a whole group of kids like Sam, and they all got psychic powers from it.

Stop blaming yourself, Sam…none of this was your fault

“Been On My Mind…”: Nope. Nothin’.

"Father's Day"

Well, this is an interesting episode to watch after coming home from my dad's...where after having to sit through a conversation that once again confirmed that that's not a particularly safe space to come out in, maybe ever, I did come home and almost immediately pre-order the very expensive Dabi figure...

And the first thing I find out is that Rose's dad and my dad share a birthday? And they're just 4 years apart?

Don't know why the Doctor is so mad at Rose about this? HE took her there! Yeah, it's gonna cause some really bad ripple effects, but maybe don't take a person to the day their parent they didn't get to know died and not expect them to do whatever they can to stop that from happening???

It's so awkward hearing her go on and on and on, and the Doctor is just FUMING silently.

"Why does everyone think we're a couple?!" Just wait a few more episodes, Rose.

I think the most amazing thing about this epsiode is that it came out slightly before rickrolling was popularized, but it does rickroll you if you watch it now.

Oh. Oh. This is...absolutely heartbreaking to hear. I can't imagine what ti must be like to sit there and hear that fight while you've been told your whole life how great your parent was and how much your parents loved each other.

Yeah. I was not emotionally ready for this episode.

OMG!! LITTLE MICKEY?!?! and the Doctor cooing at baby Rose to not destroy the whole world lol

It is nice that the story gets that little change at the end...

[jvpw]

'WCW POWER HOUR' 01.02.93 Recap + Review - Bagwell & Armstrong vs. Windham & Pillman, Big World Title Announcement

AIRDATE: January 2, 1993 COMMENTATORS: Tony Schiavone & “The Living Legend” Larry Zbyszko

WCW begins their New Year with Power Hour, featuring a tag team main event pitting Brad Armstrong & Marcus Alexander Bagwell against Barry Windham & Brian Pillman, plus some big news as a new World Champion has been crowned…at a house show in Baltimore during the week.

CHAMPIONS

WCW WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION: Big Van Vader

WCW UNITED STATES HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION: “Ravishing” Rick Rude

WCW WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPION: Scott Steiner

WCW/NWA UNIFIED WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS: Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat & Shane Douglas

LINEUP

2 Cold Scorpio vs. Joe Cruz (SQUASH)

Scotty Flamingo vs. Keith Cole (*)

Brad Armstrong & Marcus Alexander Bagwell vs. Barry Windham & Brian Pillman (**1/2)

*****

2 Cold Scorpio vs. Joe Cruz

Right at the bell Schiavone announces some huge news: Big Van Vader is World Champion once again, having defeated Ron Simmons on Wednesday in Baltimore. More to come later today on Saturday Night. Cruz has the weight advantage but not much else and Scorpio easily dispatches him with various aerial moves, including a skin the cat into a slingshot splash and finally a 450 Splash to win.

2 Cold Scorpio defeated Joe Cruz via pinfall (2:44)

JON’S THOUGHTS: Scorpio out here casually busting out 450 Splashes in 1993, turning the crowd into that exploding head guy from Scanners. Love it. (SQUASH)

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-Schiavone and Zbyszko hype the next Clash of the Champions, scheduled for January 13th, which will feature an Arm Wrestling contest between “Heavy Metal” Van Hammer & Tony Atlas.

-CLIP (12/19/92 Worldwide): Van Hammer defeats Ron Simmons to win WCW’s Strongest Arm competition put on by Jesse “The Body” Ventura. Hammer’s ceremony is interrupted by Tony Atlas, who says he was too late to enter the contest but HE’S the one with the strongest arm in WCW. 

-PROMOTIONAL CONSIDERATION PAID FOR BY THE FOLLOWING: Zap Pack’s video game trading cards, GI Joe action figures, and Predator 2 for Sega Genesis and Game Gear.

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Scotty Flamingo vs. Keith Cole

Cole overpowers Flamingo to start, keeping control with a side headlock until Flamingo finally stuns him with a belly-to-back suplex. Cole counters an abdominal stretch with a hip toss, Flamingo goes back on the offensive with a series of kicks and a bearhug. Cole won’t stay down though, kicking out of Flamingo’s  pinfall attempts and fighting back with lefts and a clothesline. Flamingo catches a charging Cole with an elbow and finishes him off with an airplane spin into a Samoan Drop for the 1…2…3.

Scotty Flamingo defeated Keith Cole via pinfall (4:46)

JON’S THOUGHTS: Flamingo may have gotten the win but Cole looked like the stronger man here, kicking out of every other pinning attempt in rapid fashion. Also it has to be said: Keith Cole has the GREATEST mullet I have ever seen on a human being. It is amazing, the perfect level of trash. Knowing the trajectory of Flamingo’s career in the 90s I have no idea what he’s got left to do in WCW under the gimmick. Could be a Michael Wallstreet circa 91 situation where he just suddenly…vanishes. (*)

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-Teddy Long hypes up the 8-Man ThunderCage scheduled (SCHEDULED) to main event January 13th’s Clash of the Champions special. Clips aplenty play showing the major feuds going into the match (Ron Simmons/Rick Rude, Sting/Big Van Vader, Dustin Rhodes/Barry Windham, Van Hammer/The Barbarian, the final grouping having no real beef with each other but we paired everybody else off so whatever).

-Schiavone and Zbyszko discuss January 13’s scheduled (SCHEDULED) Bounty Match between Erik Watts and Cactus Jack then take it to footage from Jack’s match at last year’s show, a Falls Count Anywhere contest against Van Hammer from the 1.21.92 Clash. It’s a helluva thing mostly thanks to Jack’s bumps but sadly the show does not give us the whole thing, instead cutting to Missy Hyatt mid-move for the next segment. Booo.

-Missy Hyatt wants Erik Watts to make her his manager, as he needs someone to guide him. Cut to a clip from Saturday Night in 1992 where Rick Rude snaps off a Rude Awakening on the concrete floor. Watts makes it to the apron and Rude suplexes him back in…and now we’re back to Hyatt who continues pleading her case for becoming his manager.

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Brad Armstrong & Marcus Alexander Bagwell vs. Barry Windham & “Flyin” Brian Pillman

Windham muscles Armstrong into the corner, Armstrong quickly fights his way out to reset. Armstrong drops Windham with a shoulder tackle followed by a dropkick into a side headlock takeover. Windham counters with a headscissors, Armstrong kicks his way out and a shoving match breaks out before the ref is forced to intervene. Schiavone brings up Armstrong & Windham’s history, the two having battled over the U.S. Heavyweight Championship at the second-ever Clash of the Champions. Pillman, Armstrong’s former Light Heavyweight Championship rival, tags in and gets dropped with an enzuigiri. Pillman misses one of his own, Bagwell tags in and goes after Pillman’s leg to ground the high-flier. Windham tags in, Bagwell surprises him with a dropkick and back body drop. Bagwell brings Windham to the canvas with a side headlock, Windham escapes but eats a pair of dropkicks followed by an armdrag into an armbar. Pillman sneaks a tag in and traps Bagwell in a side headlock. Bagwell catches a flying Pillman with a shot to the midsection followed by a dropkick and armdrag. Pillman sends Bagwell into Windham’s knee, Windham tags in and drives an elbow to the back of the neck. Bagwell fires back but misses a clothesline and Windham puts him into the canvas with a DDT, popping the crowd.

Windham connects with a belly-to-back suplex, Pillman tags in and comes off the buckles with  an elbowdrop for the 1…2…Bagwell kicks out, Pillman settles into a chinlock. Pillman tosses Bagwell to the floor behind the ref’s back, avoiding a DQ. Bagwell catches Pillman with a crossbody but Windham ties up the ref too long and only ends up with a one-count at best. Pillman traps Bagwell in an abdominal stretch, Windham pulling on the arm for extra leverage just out of the ref’s view. Bagwell escapes with a hip toss and crawls under Pillman’s legs to make the hot tag to Armstrong. All four men battle in the ring, ref forces Bagwell out and Windham & Pillman hit a proto Total Elimination (Pillman clipping the knee, Windham connecting with a lariat), Pillman covering Armstrong for the 1…2…3!

Barry Windham & Brian Pillman defeated Brad Armstrong & Marcus Alexander Bagwell via pinfall (9:22)

JON’S THOUGHTS: Having jumped from 1991 to 1993 in my WCW lookback I was a little surprised to see Pillman & Windham as a heel tag team given how heated their feud was back in the day, taped fist matches and the like. They worked really well together and I liked the finish a lot. Schiavone bringing up Armstrong’s history with Windham was a nice way to give some flavor to this one and I want to go back and watch that match now. (**1/2)

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-Schiavone and Zbyszko hypes tonight’s Saturday Night, where a tournament will begin to get a shot at Rick Rude’s United States Heavyweight Championship.

*****

FINAL THOUGHTS

Disappointing that we didn’t get the full Van Hammer/Cactus Jack match from last year’s Clash, but besides that Power Hour was a breeze to get through. Main event tag team match was fun, loved seeing 2 Cold Scorpio in action, and the tease about Big Van Vader regaining the World Championship during the week did a good job hyping Saturday Night for later in the day.

[dreamycloud]

How about some Scott Tracy for the ask game? ^^

Thanks, @uniwolfcorn!

First Impression:

I don’t usually get attached to the main characters in shows, so I fully expected to be kinda neutral about Scott. And I definitely started watching TOS that way (my eyes were immediately glued on John, lol, so there was no room to be a little crazy about another Tracy brother).

Impression Now:

Scott has won my love and adoration after finishing the series and continuing to rewatch the show. He’s climbed to a solid #2, only after John haha. There’s just so much more to him than you think and it comes out when you’re really paying attention to him. He’s always eager to jump into action, just so so so incredibly restless, and yet a little unsure of himself at times. His voice totally kills me. Once I realized that Scott had a steady habit of muttering, I listen for it whenever I’m watching TOS. It just fills me with so much joy. I’ve never really seen a character do that—and a main character at that! Shane Rimmer just breathes so much life into Scott. I’m constantly in awe.

Favorite Moment:

One of my favorite moments is when Scott wakes up in the sick room after he and Virgil were knocked out by testing that’s cutting gas that turned out to be quite poisonous. His immediate reaction to opening his eyes is, and I quote, “Gee, that was… that was sure a good sleep. HEY. What’s with all this bedside manner stuff?” That is quintessential Scott Tracy.

Idea for a Story:

I am currently (and very slowly, sorry) working on my Scott/Brains fic, and I will hopefully be posting the first chapter within the next week or so. Within it, I’ll be exploring the pressure Scott feels as the eldest and leader next up after his father—as well as the self-sacrificing he thinks he had to do to keep IR insulated and protected. Idk I’m just really excited about it and getting to focus on Scott this time around.

Unpopular Opinion:

I don’t know��� are there hot takes about Scott? I mean, fine, I’ll start something. I prefer TOS Scott Tracy to TAG Scott Tracy. Why? Because honestly I feel like we get a lot of downtime in TOS that helped expand on Scott’s character that we just never seen in TAG. I would like TAG Scott a bit more if we had gotten to see quiet moments where he could sit with the pressure of leading IR in his father’s absence, and being the Big-Brother-Turned-Father for his family. It’s implied, but I guess because it’s a kids show, the focus was on the action of the rescues rather than character development. But I feel like it’s a missed opportunity that would have made the reunion at the end of the series even more powerful.

Favorite Relationship:

Scott and Brains. You wouldn’t think there would be a particular brother who would seem to have a closer relationship with Brains than the others, but it’s Scott. It took me a few rewatches (I swear, I’m just constantly pulling up another TOS ep, they never get old). But I started picking up on little things like how often Brains and Scott stood side by side. How verbally supportive they are of each other on the regular. Don’t get me started on them rescuing each other haha. The big one for me was Scott and Brains’s scenes and exchanges in both movies, but especially in TB6 where Brains goes through a tough time, doubting himself, and then you have Scott defending Brains when talking to his father. It’s so subtle but lovely.

Favorite Headcanon:

If you’ve read my fics, you know I see Scott Tracy as a stress baker haha. He bakes some pretty impressive sweets and then eats them almost as soon as they’ve cooled from the oven haha. He’s just such a high-stressed creature, and I feel that this would be a fun way for I’m to burn off the anxiety he carries outside of exercising.

[shimmershae]

So.  I slogged through TWD Episode 17-Lockdown and, you know me, I had some thoughts.

I always have thoughts.  They’re not always coherent, but they’re definitely there.  

Look behind the cut if you’re interested in skimming through them.  

Slogged is definitely the word I meant to use because it took me almost 3 hours to consume this episode--I kept getting up and leaving to do other, more interesting things (blasphemous in the TWD fan days of old, the only way to keep my sanity in these trying times).  

But like I said, I slogged through it and all I could think about afterward was thank God I didn’t pay AMC any money for this.  

Shae’s stream of consciousness thoughts incoming in 3-2-1.  

So finally, finally they are giving us some connection to the past, playing up on our nostalgia with Judith’s voiceover and the flashbacks.  

IMHO, they should have included flashbacks of Lori in there since, you know, she’s kind of one of the biggest reasons why Judith is alive at this point and able to hear these stories.  Like why is she hearing stories about Shane’s descent into madness and not stories about the mama that sacrificed her life for her?  I mean, did I miss it or do they continue to do the most to erase Lori from the fabric of baby girl’s DNA?  

That said?  Carol and Lydia at the cliff!  My forever bruised heart!

Oh lawd, more Daryl and Maggie. I can already tell this episode is going to be lacking because they are BORING AF together.  Like there is just ZERO energy between them.  

I love how Aaron says “Carol’s there” when Gabe worries about Hornsby going after their people/families.  My girl is Team Family’s one woman protection squad.  

You know I’m proud AF but also?  I cry.  Because who’s looking out for her?  After the way so many of them seemed to turn on her last season, it doesn’t feel like they have her back back, you know?  

Negan and Annie would be kind of sweet if they weren’t basically one of those mug cakes that you throw in a few ingredients and toss in the microwave for 30 seconds.  Oh and if there weren’t actual good people still struggling to find their own happiness when this “reformed” murderer is basically getting to play house.

Negan really using that nasty ass Whisperer mask as the centerpiece to his entire wardrobe whenever he has “date night” has me simultaneously cringing and laughing because yuck.  And also?  Wonder if Annie’s like “Eww, didn’t I throw that out with the trash last week?”  

I hate how my Denny Duquette crushing days rear their head at the most inopportune times.  Like here I am, fighting against finding any redeeming quality in this butt abscess of a human being and I remember how charming Denny was and I’m like, fuckkkkkk.  Let’s not even get into JDM fanning the flames of the hellscape that is fandom since AMC decided to insert its head so far up its ass I can see Scott Gimple’s bolo tie dangling between Chris Hardwick’s teeth whenever he opens his mouth and just glides over the spinoff debacle with 101 questions about Princess and Mercer and Judith’s hairstyle like it’s nothing.  

Daryl and Negan tag-teaming it will never not make me go WTF.  Like the ways in which TWD has contorted these characters to keep that fucker alive would be impressive in some kind of alternate universe where people weren’t such assholes about a woman mourning her murdered son and seeking vengeance and ultimately the protection of her people in a two birds, one stone kind of way.    

Those Walkers ripping out those guts like people down at Disney during free dining (RIP) going ham after buffet snow crab legs.  

·AMC lying even in its opening credits because Melissa McBride and Christain Serratos been glorified guest stars this season and they’re 2nd and 4th billed.  

Oh look, they decided to put all 99 members of the cast in the opening. Cool, cool.  Too bad only about 4 of them have had any appreciable screen time this season.  

The comic style opening is cool and all but the original opening hit way harder.

Lance losing his shit in that suit is sending me.  

Don’t they know they’re wasting a precious commodity in the ZA—fuel. Jeez.  

Wow!  Yumiko lives!  Magna too.

You know Negan wants to comment on the pumpkin suit.  I mean, that twinkle in JDM’s eyes is on point.  He’s having to forcibly restrain his lesser angels (actually devils, but eh), lol.

Negan’s in is April?  Guess she’s dead so she can’t refute his story. Makes sense.  If I hadn’t rewatched the 2 minutes of that episode where Carol and Daryl awkwardly make a date and Carol comes to save her Pookie’s bacon recently I wouldn’t have remembered who TF she was though.  

Carol!!!  How is it possible she gets ever more beautiful every time we see her on our screens?  Granted, AMC is doing the most to see how that absence makes the heart grow fonder thing works out.  

 Fuck TWD having her play babysitter.  I know she’s been working things undercover and I know I’ve been salivating over Aunt Carol/Judith scenes for literal years but damn them for doing it this way.  

Seriously.  I hate how now they’re doing more than implying Carol has a relationship with these kids.  You know, conveniently sidelining her from the action.  They’ve been employing this same tactic for years.  Remember when they kept her from Negan’s lineup (my only consolation is she was spared that trauma) by shipping her off to the circus that was the Kingdom?  

That’s it!  Daryl’s solo spinoff is about him going back in time to that silly Ren Faire and showing his girl why she belongs with him and not some man who would self-appoint himself King.  

I kid.  I think.  Let’s move on from that farce, shall we?  

I do like, however, that Daryl and Aaron know their kids (because let’s face it, Daryl’s had more time playing daddy to those kids than Rick ever got the chance to) are safest WITH Carol. Takes the wind out of the sails of the old and tired mantra of the haters that Rick never trusted Carol with his kids.  Feels kind of like a fuck you, haters to me, lol.

Fake Stephanie and that other person I can’t remember the name of—hmm, guess they weren’t all that memorable. The hell are they doing coming in on Carol’s (Daryl’s?) apartment that way?  

You know.  I love the implication that Carol has been in that apartment enough that she’s super comfortable and knowledgeable about the whereabouts of everything but like, would it have killed this damn show to actually SHOW us Carol and Daryl slouching on a couch together instead of taking another whack at the dead horse that is Carol’s failed marriage with the petting zoo keeper?  Would it have?  Really?  

Poor babies be pretty skilled at that quiet game.  Especially RJ.  ; )

“Where is Carol?”  

Negan, Man.  We been asking that same question the whole damn season.

Carol’s always right, lol. We been knew.  Now we just got to convince the haters to accept that IN CAROL? EVERYBODY TRUSTS.  Actually, we don’t.  Because haters gonna hate.  Sure would be nice though.  

Carol’s been planning for things to go to hell from word go. ��Sending the babies to an attic safe space?  Stocking it with supplies?  

Oh look. They remembered Yumiko and Magna used to know each other.  

They should have used Magna more in this class struggle in CW.  Given us more scenes showing her struggles instead of Eugene getting his groove on.  

Lockdown?  Hmm.  Oh damn.  Just remembered that’s the name of the episode.  My bad.  

The hell did all those Walkers come from?  Thought I was watching a different show for a second.  I mean, I know my attention’s wandered quite a bit but still.  

So Pamela releases “swarms” of Walkers on her citizens whenever she’s feeling some heat?  Sounds like something, eh, nevermind.  At least that’s the impression I got.  

Negan talking to Carol like they’re friends.  Look. I hate the hoops they’ve jumped through to keep him alive and relevant but I love the scenes he shares with Carol, lol.  I realize there are some double standards at work here but they fascinate me because he respects the absolute shit out of her (AS HE SHOULD) and MMB/JDM have their own kind of magnetism at play.  

Ya’ll already know all these Maggie/Daryl scenes are flatlining my interest levels but can you imagine if Daryl wasn’t there at all with her?  Because I think I honestly would end up wearing my thumb out on the FF button. Like no offense to LC at all but she needs somebody dynamic or in direct opposition to her character to come alive because Maggie is too straight line A to B, black and white, what have you.  They’ve muddied her up some this season but keep drawing the line at letting her really lean into the shades of gray because they want to keep her “heroine” persona intact. Guess it’s much easier for simple-minded folks to hate on Carol.  Besides. MMB is much better at selling her character’s layers.  

“I know that Leah meant something to you.”  Bitch, please.  Not as much as LCol hoped but I guess we’re supposed to at least pretend that whole waste of time Reapers storyline served some kind of purpose or had some miniscule impact.  

Daryl looking out for Maggie because of Glenn.  Now that actually tracks.  

Little dude that plays RJ can’t even sell that he’s terrified for his life.  He ain’t even breathing fast.  Kid’s stone cold.  As in dead and unable to portray human emotion.  Flare some nostrils.  Something.  Damn.  His parents putting back the money he’s getting from this show for his college fund though so kudos.  Plus, he’s a cute little boo so.  He still winning at life.  

Oh goodie.  Another trip through some sewers.  Aren’t they worried the CW is going to smell them coming?  

How shitty, literally, would it be to spend your eternity in a shit tunnel?  

OFC, Carol sniffed out Sebastian.

“I have seen her pull little bunnies right out of her ass with my very own two eyes.”  LOL.  But also?  Eww.  What ya’ll wanna bet Gimple sits at his laptop gleefully rubbing his hands together as he thinks up Negan’s dialogue and it’s always the most cringe ever.  Like there’s a distinct difference between the shit that has come out of his mouth this season versus last season.  And it’s not like he was weaving sonnets but his words weren’t full body cringe inducing either.  Dare I say it, they had more nuance.  At any rate, even if Gimple didn’t write it himself, you can still see the faint impression of that damn bolo tie in the stamp on it.  

Who is this random dude shouting on the megaphone?  I literally don’t know or care anything about any of these people.

I mean, I know I’m supposed to care more about this protest but all I can see are a bunch of redshirts taking up screen time from the characters I’m really interested/invested in. And sadly?  Kelly is the only “known” person in that crowd I’d be upset about if something happened to her.  I’m just not there with Connie because largely?  They’ve failed to put in the work to actually develop her, instead cheapening what she could be?  By using her as a tool for shipping wars.  If they stopped that bullshit and really and truly committed to fleshing her out more, I get totally get onboard because she has the foundation of a good character.  But right now she’s a crepe paper flower whereas Carol’s a whole bouquet of homegrown Cherokee roses.  

Rosita telling Mercer her family comes first and him respecting that and offering her help to get out if/when she needs it? One of the few moments of this episode so far besides the Carol moments where I’ve been like, yes.  Give me more.  I like this dynamic.  We could have had so many more quality moments with Rosita had they cut all that Daryl/Maggie fat that’s unneeded.  At this point, it isn’t even giving the episode more flavor.  

Speaking of flavor--is it just me or are these Walkers especially ravenous this episode?  

I love how my girl Carol is always ten steps ahead of every damn body but would it kill this show not to skip every step she takes until the final one?  

Lance looks like he might enjoy a little knife play, lol.  

The best thing I have to say about this episode insider thing is Angela’s hair looks pretty.  

Anyway.  I hope you got more enjoyment out of my free-flowing word vomit than I personally got out of the episode.  I’ve yet to work up to caring enough to sit down and watch 18 but whenever I finally do, expect to hear all about it here, lol.  

[midrashic]

your tag system is so intricate! how did you develop it and do you have any favorite tags or ones with good stories behind them?

ahh thank you so much!! i've been getting a lot of compliments about my tagging recently & i'm glad people seem to be interested in it.

honestly i started doing it because i wished other people would use unique tags so i wouldn't have to see their opinions on things other than what i followed them for lmao. the supernatural / marvel cinematic universe cold war of it all... you can still see some of my early supernatural tags are pretty silly, & right now my tag system is pretty broken because i'm trying to revamp the whole thing to make it more aesthetic and less me-as-seventeen-year-old.

developing a tag system like this is really just... figuring out what tags you will actually use. there are some tags i stopped using because it was too much trouble to try & squint and figure out whether this post fell into this category or that category. i used to have a tag called #just geek girl things, and it was supposed to be for trivia that was kind of academically oriented, but i kept getting it confused with #trivial pursuits, which was supposed to be more like those maps that say the most searched-for animal in each u.s. state. it would stress me out, trying to figure out what belonged in each category, & eventually i dropped them. tagging shouldn't really activate your ocd (i say this as someone with ocd). & the other big part is keeping track of it. i have all my tags in a note to myself which i'm trying to transfer over to a spreadsheet.

fun tag names can come from anywhere! some highlights:

steal! both #relship: we'll always have cuba & #ch: heavy metal broke my heart are both cribbed from this post. (i figured the chances of someone following me & the originator of the tag and the originator still being in the cherik fandom are pretty small, plus i think relship instead of otp: or ship: also adds a level of remove, so if you wanted to filter me out you could lmao); #temp directory: the pornbots are coming from inside the house is a quip someone made about a tumblr problem from, like, years ago, when someone noticed that the only notes ads got were from porn blogs, & hypothesized that tumblr staff ran the pornblogs to artificially inflate post engagement numbers; #hyperfixation: the leveled geocities stretch away is from that "ozymandias" parody that was circulating on here a while ago

some small detail from canon, like logan uses shane to frame its themes so my laura kinney & logan tag is #relship: there aren't any more guns in the valley; my monica rambeau tag is a line from the story carol is seen telling her in captain marvel, #ch: aloutte flew up throughout the night; my yelena belova tag is a line from "american pie," #ch: when i read about his widowed bride

some cool meta someone wrote about a character or pairing that sticks in your brain. like i thought the recurring joke of logan stealing scott's motorcycle in the original x-men trilogy was hilarious, because i'd actually read all-new x-men first & baby scott steals logan's motorcycle in that one, so my scott & logan tag is #relship: a history of motorcycle thievery. #ch: the never-queen of alderaan is from a few fics that dwelt on how leia is forever the princess of alderaan, who will never be a queen, because there is no planet to crown her so. #ch: writers are the enemy for chuck shurley / god is from a refrain that gets repeated throughout postfinale supernatural meta

tags in pairs! like janet van dyne's tag is #ch: float like a butterfly; hope's is #ch: sting like a bee. fitz's tag is #ch: the left hand doesn't know & simmons' tag is #ch: what the right hand is doing

a spin on famous titles or phrases. #hyperfixation: love in the time of amatonormativity is a play on love in the time of cholera; #filed under: your mental health's a joke you're broke your brain chemistry's d.o.a., is, you know, the friends theme; #fandom: unusual medical investigations: princeton plainsboro is of course a spin on those csi titles

lyrics from songs strongly associated with a character or pairing (#relship: the person that you'd take a bullet for (is behind the trigger)), or songs you associate with the character or pairing. my jean grey tag is #ch: gonna change you like a remix, from fall out boy's "phoenix," & my steve + peggy tag, and this is one of my favorites, is from a song from the bonnie and clyde musical that hits all the notes i think of when i think of them

honestly a lot of it is just seeing what associations hit! like my new linguistics tag, #hyperfixation: cunning linguistics, is, you know, an old joke, a middle school joke, but it was what came to mind when i asked myself about phrases i associated with the word "linguistics." #ch: the problem that has no name is an iconic quote from friedan's the feminine mystique, so i used it for mystique. #hyperfixation: and i bless you more life is for queer culture & art, the ur-example of which is, for me, angels in america.

favorite tags... i do have tags that i would never, ever change, because they just make absolute sense to me. & i actually had a whole list typed up of some of my favorite tags, and then i realized... my favorite tag is my greg house + james wilson relationship tag, #relship: amazing how fire exposes our priorities. that quote is actually from a different sherlock holmes adaptation, but house's finale conflagration is much more dramatic than sherlock rescuing john from the guy fawkes fire.

thank you so much for the ask!! if you're curious about any tags in particular, i can expound then, but... i have a lot of tags slkdfjsdf.

[skepticbeliever-bookclub]

Can we get some fics where one of them doesn't have feelings for the other ....but at last may or may not have developed them? Or just comes around and accepts the other in general

A concept a little bit hard to pin down but we hope these are what you're looking for!

Happy If You Never Left - breathtaken | E, 22k, Complete When Ryan's injured during a shoot, Shane offers to look after him while he recovers. He doesn't know that Ryan's going through some stuff, and that Shane only having one bed in his apartment may hurt more than it helps...

Love Me Till The End - sunriseandsunshine | T, 16k, Complete Shane does not like Ryan. Never has since kindergarten. Hell, he even tries out for the basketball team just to spite the idiot. Their dumb rivalry is his anchor, though. His life is changing and with little notice. Shane's got an aversion to it. He, and most every human, has inertia. A tendency to stay on the same life trajectory, and resist anything that threatens to make him take a different path. But he's starting to getting tired of resisting this particular one. Making the basketball team doesn't just give him a number on a jersey or popularity at school, it leads him to the best thing he'll ever have. Ryan Bergara.

Big As the Ocean, And Equally Hard to Control - calico_fiction | E, 17k, Complete Of course you can be happy without being with your soulmate, and Ryan doesn't judge different kinds of relationships, he just thinks that your soulmate is like the pinnacle of what you can achieve, romantically. "You sound like a Nicholas Sparks movie," Shane tells him, because Shane doesn't believe in soulmates.

Little Bit Magical - blacktofade | E, 19k, Complete Shane is a demon in need of healing and Ryan just so happens to have magic that can heal him. When Ryan needs protection from someone trying to steal his soul, they strike a deal to save each other.

Out In The Cold - breathtaken | E, 26K, Complete “When he’s crying on your shoulder, I want you to remember this.” Scott’s eyes are like flint on Ryan’s. “How good we are together. How hard I make you come. And if you wanna throw all that away for my neurotic mess of a little brother, who’s never fucked a guy before and would rather ruin everything for everyone else than be honest about what he wants, then I’ll let you do that – but I suggest you think about it very carefully, because once you do, there’ll be no take-backs.”

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[elizabeth-karenina]

Hello y’all, I’ve been tagged yet again

This time by the ever wonderful and adorable, @beau--brummell​!! Thank you very much, Liv my dear! 

I was tagged to post 10 of my celebrity crushes, BUT Y’ALL KNOW ME TOO WELL to think that I could ever boil down any of my favorites like that. So, I simply wrote up all the people I moon over and placed them here. No guarantees on how long this will be, but I promise I won’t go any more than like....17. Honorable mentions will be put in the tags! 

1. Sacha Dhawan, my main crush at the moment. He has NO BUSINESS looking or being the way he is. From Doctor Who to The Great and everything in between, he’s incredibly underrated and it’s a crime. His eyes, y’all. HIS EYES. 

2. Dev Patel, who is AMAZING and needs to be in more things. This should’ve been His Year for period dramas tbh. 

3, Andrew Scott, because I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t have at least one crush on a gay man. He’s such a doll and an incredible actor. 

4. Aneurin Barnard, one of my earliest Tumblr crushes. It’s an amazing thing to be able to watch an actor grow, and he’s done great things. Not to mention, he’s beauteous. (Also, NONE OF YOU told me he’s a Dad now, WHAT). 

5. Rami Malek, again, another actor who I’ve grown up with who is handsome, incredibly talented, and a great person. We love to see it. 

6. Joe Mazzello, friend of Rami, Dinosaur King, Adokable Nerd, and a very underrated actor tbh. I need him in more things. 

7. Henry Cavill, yet another actor who’s been dear to my heart for years. He’s bulked up a lot since then (I wish he hadn’t he was still pretty with his regular bod), but I’ve been very happy with his success. Also, he’s beautiful and smart. 

8. Matt Damon, one of my earliest and longest-lasting crushes. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know this man. He’s not only a great person, but I’m always curious to see what his next role will be. He’s versatile af.

9. Oscar Isaac, Y’ALL DO I EVEN NEED TO ELABORATE?! I first saw him as King John in Robin Hood, and my fate was sealed. He’s another versatile af actor as well an a wonderful person. 

10. Robert Downey Jr., who has led Some Life. He’s the ultimate Comeback Kid, and it couldn’t have happened to someone more deserving. His version of Sherlock Holmes is my favorite. And damn, this man is pretty. 

11. Harry Styles, YAAAAAS Y’ALL WHAT AN ABSOLUTE KING. OF EVERYTHING. 

12. Niall Horan, AGAIN. YAAAAAAS MY KING. He and Harry were my lowkey favorites, not even gonna lie. Both of them are stand-up guys who continue to create great music. We love to see it. 

13. Sam Heughan, forever and always the Jamie Fraser of my heart. And like every other guy on this list, Sam is an actual sweetheart and a great person. I wish him nothing but success and happiness. 

14. Allen Leech, Y’ALL THOUGHT I WAS GONNA FORGET MY DOWNTON HUSBAND?! He is EVERYTHING on this show, and he’s a sassy and adorable mofo IRL. (Also, HE TOO HAS BECOME A DAD HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS???) 

15. George MacKay, who made me fall in love with him in 1917. I need him to be in more things, because I think he’s a wonderful actor as well as yet another great person. Also, his eyes say SO MUCH while saying so little. 

16. Shane Taylor, particularly when he’s Eugene Roe in Band of Brothers. He is etherally beautiful, as well as incredibly sweet and kind IRL. 

17. Hozier, or the actual Fae Bog-Body Man of My Soul who makes songs that leave me completely SHOOK AF. Beauty, talent, brains, and heart? How dare he have it all!!